Students win welding contest

Friday

Feb 22, 2013 at 6:00 AM

Mitch Miller, from West Boylston, and Jesse Lemanski, from Clinton, both juniors in the Assabet Valley Technical High School metal fabrication program, recently won first place in an nationwide metal sculpture contest sponsored by Victor Technologies in Utah.

After some brainstorming about what they could design that could possibly represent the theme “Innovation to Change and Shape the World with Welding” the students decided to collaborate on an American topic – the American flag and military vehicles.

“We did our preliminary sketches by hand, then modified and perfected it until we were ready to begin welding,” Lemanski said.